Barbara Stiegler:  

After numerous requests (BS - it was only from one person!) I've finally decided to post a official halfway decent story. That is,as much as I recall from the past,a task I've been wanting to do for long and before my Gold membership expires. I know it won't amount to much, compaired to Paul's second and improved Bio. His posts and stories are so fabulous, sad, inspiring and a bit funny, but I will give it a try. To those neighbors and classmates who wondered why the Munch and Yates kids disappeared from the school bus and Sunday school classes - here is my tale... I recall being concieved on a windy mid-morning Sunday and dawned to the world in a Waltham (Army) hospital on the 1.15.1950. A date that I soon considered kinda of like neat. After living on base (my father served in Africa and Germany, where he met my mother) we moved to Swifts Beach, Wareham, where my parents bought a house near the water. My first memories were running down barefoot on the scorching sidewalk and collecting tadpoles or guppies in big glass milk (Hudson?) bottles, in this stream near the ocean. Also throwing mudballs at my siblings and the house's outside walls! Mom was not amused... My father unfortunately had to leave us : Mom and 4 children under 8 years, due to a fatal and unfaulted celler gas explosion in 1952. Following my Mom's second marriage years later we moved to the 240 Sandwich Str., which has been converted into a bed and breakfast, "Another World" since then. A fitting name, if you ask me. After the birth of my younger siblings we moved to the South Meadow Rd., a L- shaped house (still standing) my stepfather had planed and built. With our concent she divorced him and visited her longlost family in Germany in the early 1960s. Afterwards she decided it was time for us to see our roots, since my father's parents were also german. Your every day story of moving 5 of your 6 children to a foreign country. And language, which I had barely learned the grammer after 2 years spent at Mrs. Marcelonis's interesting German 1 and 2 classes. From German life, his...Expand for more